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Short Film Program: Animation Sensation

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Wednesday, April 17 | 10:00 & 11:45 am | Roundhouse Community Centre
This program of films is quirky, beautiful, and hilarious. An international array of animators bring us stories that are touching, enchanting and at times just completely bizarre!

On a stormy night, a boy named EGG lays an egg from which a monster is born. The boy, terrified, throws her into the forest. When this bizarre incident repeats night after night, EGG begins to feel like a monster himself, and becomes more isolated...

A young man named Charles, who has just lost his home, spends one last day with his best friend, a sea turtle, before saying goodbye and moving on. Eric Bates' website is an outlet for his thoughts, creative ideas, and work.

RATING: G

Eric Bates graduated from the animation department at the Emily Carr University of Art (Vancouver, Canada) in 2003. Since then, he's travelled in Canada, England, and Australia, and worked in some great studios doing animation/VFX. At the moment he's completing a Masters degree in experimental animation at the Kyoto University of Art and Design (Japan), where he's had the chance to experiment, work on some personal projects, experience life in Japan, and become a ninja.

The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms reside in a state of constant flux, reflecting a world of transience, mutability, and impermanence. Through the metaphor of transformation, this film explores the themes of malleability, instability, and interconnectedness.

A bear working as a motorcycle acrobat in a traveling circus is tired of feeling like a buffoon. He yearns for the wilderness that should be his home. But has it disappeared? Stunning and sensitive hand-drawn animation illuminates this lovely allegory of wildlife issues.